Both WordPress and LinkedIn have been around the block for some time now. But until recently, there was no application for integrating the two beyond a badge from your LinkedIn account. WordPress has decided to change that.
Named 2007’s Best Social Networking CMS, WordPress is living up to its award. The WordPress app for LinkedIn allows you to “…share ideas and updates with your LinkedIn network, keeping your trusted contacts in the loop, effortlessly,” according to WordPress’ blog.
Packt Publishing in England has named Drupal the best open source CMS for 2008.
This is the same award WordPress won in 2007.
So has Drupal overtaken WordPress? That’s hard to do, in either politics or business, and maybe we’re comparing apples to oranges.
That’s because in its latest press release Packt said Drupal won this award last year. (Not true.)
Also, when our own Dennis Howlett learned of last year’s decision, he told Larry Dignan WordPress was not a CMS at all. Larry then corrected his own post to note that ZDNet, which runs WordPress, also runs a separate CMS on top of it.
So are Drupal and WordPress competitors, or not?
Now on their third beta release, WordPress is promising big things with version 2.7. After completing the first round of bug fixes from the beta 1 and beta 2 releases, the WordPress team is making sure that the full public release is a quality release with minimal issues.
The below video is a great segway into the changes being made to the WordPress core framework in preparation for the 2.7 release to the public. Illustrating many of the changes to the interface and the Dashboard set up, this video claims, “This time, it’s personal.”
There is no doubt that building and maintaining a high quality website requires a great deal of work, especially if the site is laden with rich, dynamic, fresh and interesting content. One of the most important tools available to make the management of such a site considerably easier for the webmaster and staff is a good dedicated web content management system.
In essence, web content management systems are a set of software utility programs that typically reside on the host server of the website. These utilities are the foundation of the tools that allow the website owner or manager to handle the management of a website in terms of the content. This is done from a centralized interface that is designed to be easy to use and understand so that the content management can flow as easily as possible.
The most basic kind of web content management system provides the website owner with a simple and straightforward way to have control of the text elements that are used on the website, mainly by utilizing cascading style sheets, or CSS protocol. This helps to make sure that the design and the look of the text content stays consistent no matter how the content is placed or imported, making the site attractive and easy for website visitors to read.
Some of the more sophisticated web content management systems will provide capabilities to not only control the layout and design of the content, but they will also include the functions that allow for automated content uploading from providers such as Article marketing Automation and for visitor created content, such as comments, reviews, votes or ratings. In addition, many such systems allow for easy management of graphics, videos and even keyword driven text links to specified affiliate programs.
Even though there is some technical understanding and skills required with the website content management options that are available these days, the required skills are quite basic, especially for the entry level type of systems. This allows even a novice to the idea of creating a money making blog to take a content management system “off the shelf” and have a new blog up and running in a couple hours by following some very basic instructions, rather than hiring a web designer or programmer to create the blog for them.
A most popular and common web content management system in use today is WordPress, which is the most widely used type of blogging platform. WordPress has come to be so popular because it is free, it comes with almost every web hosting account, it can handle many types of content management tasks and there are many third party plug-ins that greatly expand on its capabilities. There are also tens of thousands of WordPress themes available online and these can easily give a website a distinctive look, while providing all of the content management tools most webmasters need.
The internet has been one of the greatest inventions of our time. It has changed how people do business, communicate and handle all of their bills. Many people have turned to the internet as a source of revenue. Businesses and webpages are everywhere. There is very little that you cannot buy from the internet. But if you want to get into this business then you are going to need the right web content to attract new customers. Websites have to grab people’s attention and be well organized. The right content can make or break your business.
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